The Malagasy claim the Vazimba lived on Madagascar long before the first Malagasy scraped ashore in their oceangoing outrigger canoes about 2,000 years ago. When I visited a cave system known as Anjohibe (“Big Cave”) in the western part of the island, for instance, local Sakalava tribesmen warned that Vazimba lived in the caverns. Legends of Madagascar, by Peter Tyson

In an extraordinary discovery that made headlines around the world, scientists uncovered prehistoric evidence of a new human species on a remote Indonesian island. Researchers believe these Hobbit-sized humans shared the earth with modern humans for at least 80,000 years. This is an archeological find that has been called ‘the single most important evolutionary discovery in 100 years,’ and has added a new chapter on the origins of the human species. National Geographic Channel